GEORGE CITIZFSr
Thursday, January 19, 1939.
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IPrince George Retains Lead In Cariboo League
and
Games with Wells Saturday Sunday Expected to Draw Large Crowds
prince George~ho^ey boys retained the* leadership in the Cariboo hockey ieby taking two straight games , Williams Lake and Quesnel over week-end. Taking both matches stride the locals first downed four to one Saturday evening
trip to the Cariboo. Williams Lake, they ran into opposition and only managed a one-goal lead over the IICned Lakers. Prince George by two goals until the final , ,)er:ou when Bcb Anderson and Dick JSs scored to bring the final score 1 ,5-4 for Prince George.
Tn the Quesnel game, Prince got off
I to a flying start, with Bob Anderson,
InU Corless and Art Bailey banging
I {JL, pUCics into the Quesnel � net to
I end the first period at 3-0. Hal Rogers
! of Prince George and Felix Healy of
louesnel were handed penalties. Early
Hn he second stanza Prince George
grabbed a further lead after a score
bv Hal Rogers. In the final tussle, the
Quesnel boys tried hard to recover,
but were only able to score once,
Liich �s credited to Felix Healy.
Penalties were given to Dick Corless
and Art Bailey, both of Prince George.
The game ended at 4-1. Teams follow:
PRINCE GEORGE . strobiki, R. Corless, Nehring, A. Rebman. J. Rebman, Rogers, Bailey, Anderson, Quinn, J. Corless.
QUESNEL
Chisholm, F. Healy. J. Healy, Pinch-Ibeck. Johnston, Foster, Tingley, I Marsh. Wilcox, Magnuson. . Paster hockey was seen at the Laxe to where Prince George's rivals I played a much better game than when I they appeared here two weeks ago. Iftery man for >tlt*e Lakers played a \$mg game, and it appeared at times In if the Prince George boys would go J (torn to their first defeat. In the first [period, Art Rebman, playing well .on [the forward line, banged in two goals. I At the end of the first, the score was 12-1 for Prince. The Lakers got three I in the next, and Prince George climbed a no1 ch after Art Bailey manoeuvred the puck into the Lake net. TVo last period goals, coming at the crucial time from Bob Anderson and Dick Corless, gave Prince George the game uDh one goal to spfare, the I game ending at 5-4.
TO MEET WELLS The best hockey presentation of the | season is promised for Saturday and (Continued on page four) See "HOCKEY"
I Decorations For
Royal Visit
#15,000 in Flags and Bunting to be Distributed! to B. C. Centers
Habora.e plans for decoratidn of Public buildings in the province during �* visit of the king and queen h&ve *en announced by the authorities at
Victoria.
Approximately $15,000 worth of ,f � bunting and similar decorations wiu be purchased and distributed to various centres.
h'*!!�Prmce Georse, the government puiiding will be festooned with colored and flags will be draped ac-building. a good supply of wve material is still on hand in f'nnce George government build-Jrom the donation of the proviri-� government during the corona-" 1937. Government Agent G. M. 1 will make application for a 'supply and expects to have here fully decorated ie royal visit to Canada.
LATE^NEWS
TO CANADA
by a $2,500,000 grant from
ca'�
%> SucLetens ** coming to
L make new h��es. As the
Sent was made, Sir Henry
?ft- British settlement advo-
to nf *� thflt Britain's first duty
bePn � Britisn working men who
t years �6S from P�veriy" for
Execi,ti ai*i t
LAB0R
n11^ of the Trades ,?uncu of Canada decided n^ir-ers afiiliated with *111 c*us* a loss of Sf? cut of the 200,000 labor organizations in
EISBORSED -
ackenzie King was a_,Liberal Party caucus
111* ao rift *ft� fche g controversy.
City's Utilities Show Profit of Near $15,000
LIGHT AND POWER PROPERTIES HAVE SHOWN �64,851 PROFIT SINCE INCEPTION�WATERWORKS NOW MAKES PROFIT
On the combined power, light and water utilities owned by the city, a profit is shown for the year' ending 1938 bf'#14,857.73. The electric light and power surplus is #8,424.86 and the waterworks show a profit of #6,432.87. These are the net surpluses allowing for interest and sinking fund charges for the year as well as operating expenses. On the other hand the utilities are credited
'# in the revenues with a payment from the ctfy itself of $9,000 for street and ether service institutional lighting which makes the city the best customer of its own utility- The waterworks receive a revenue from the city of $1,456.00 for fire hydrants, schools and other ciiy services. Or in other words, taking the combined operations together, the- city gets free lighting and water for all civic requirements and still made a profit of approximately $4,500 on the ..utilities for the past year.
Since the inception, of the public owned utilities in 1917-18 the total profit on the electric light and power properties has been $364,851.09 to December 31", 1938. The waterworks, however, have shown an annual large deficit until 1931 but since that time an increasingly annual net profit. The total net deficit to'date after deduction pf the 1938 profit is still large, being now shown on the books as $82,-364.04. Taking the two utilities combined there shows a net deficit to date of $17,512.95. This is after allowing for all operating expenses, interest and sinking fund, the latter charge, of course, being for repayment of the capital cost.
The statements of accounts have been prepared by City Clerk W. G. Fraser for Mayor Patterson and F. D Taylor, chairmalti, ltgb>t. committee and C. C. Reid, chairman of water committee, ready for presentation to the respective committees and council with the annual -repeats; of Charles Freeman." power superintendent, anc J. C. McKenzie, water and works superintendent.
C. N. R. AGREEMENT The full benefit of the new agreement made between the city and the C . tf. R. for taking city power based
APPOINTED TO BENCH-John O. (Jack) Wilson, who has been receiving congratulations on his appointment to the bench as county court judge of Cariboo.
Appointment Jack Wilson To Bench Acclaimed Here
Judge County Court of Cariboo Has Been Prominent in Life of City
Jack Wilson is Judge Wilson now. Prince George's able young lawyer who went overseas at the age of sixteen and who has practised law here in partnership wuh his father since 1922, has been appointed judge of the county court of Cariboo at Ashcroft. Mr. Wilson succeeds Judge Frederick A. Calder, veteran of the bench, whose resignation has been announced.
The appointment came as no surprise to Mr. Wilson's friends in Prince George where rumors had been cur-ent for weeks concerning his appointment to the judiciary. Confirmation of the appointment came from Ottawa last Friday.
Mr. Wilson's elevation to the bench makes him one of the youngest judges In Canada and British Columbia. Mr. Justice Sloan of the appeal court is the same age, boh men being born in 1898. Mr. Wilson's fattier. P: E. Wilson, K.C., was the youngest B. C. judge when he was appointed at the age of 33. ..:. ,
Known familiarly as "Jack, to his many friends in Prince George and Lhroughout central B.C., Mr. Wilson has been prominently identified with the civic and political life of the town in his many years here. His devotion o the central interior was made manifest in the valuable contributions n� has made to its welfare as secretary. of Prince George Board of Trade. Liberal in politics, he has taken a prominent part In campaigns in the Fort George and Cariboo electoral ridings.
Jack Wilson was born in Nelson, B. C 41 years ago. the son of Peter E. Wilson, barrister, and later county court judge for East Kootenay. and the late Christine Wilson. thPri Gep
on a minimum assured fee of $250.00
per, month has not been felt in the
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See "UTHflTTES"
came to Prince George in July in August 1915 with company of the 67th
1914 and. left Billy Cooke's
Canadian Battalion, at the age of sixteen. He was woundedin France m 1918 and invalided to Canada and discharged in January 1919. .tlidiBd to Vancouver, he stumea Congdon. Campbell and and later ^n was called
and
Tobin
the
with his father In Prince
n^on
of the PrincejGeorge Association for nve yeare. of the Cariboo Federal Iib-
More Members Sought by Library
Annual Meeting Held in Elks'
Hall Tuesday Night � To
Be Open Saturday Noons
Efforts of the Prince George public library association are directed toward increasing the membership. When the association met for its annual meeting in Elks' Hall Tuesday evening, numerous proposals designed to gain public supporc were advanced, and plans laid for improving and increasing facilities of the library for the reading public.
A decision was reached to raise annual fees by 25 cents to $1.26 for single tickets and $2.25 for family tickets. More shelves are required, books must be purchased, and a new typewriter is needed. It is also hoped that more commodious quarters may be had during 1939. Addition of a reading room to the library's quarters would induce more persons to take out membership as well as give added service to regular members, it was
thought. Retiring president
of the library
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board, Mrs. W. H. James thanked the public for support during the year, and acknowledged the city's gift of $100 and Mrs. J. H. Johnson's donation of thirty books, and expressed appreciation of book gifts from others in 1938.
James Ross, William Ferry, J. Ro-bertsrMrs. J. W. Miers and Mrs. D. Boyle were elected to the board for the ensuing year. Mr. Ferry explained the situation in regard to the conversion of the Legion building into a club which would house the books, and provide a reading room for the library. One hundred and fifty members were needed to make the club function properly and only 100 were willing to sign up.
Jeanette Sargent suggested that the library board follow the example set (Continued on Page Four) See "IJBRARY"
eral Association, and about ten years on the executive of the Fort George liberal Association.
Mr. and Mrs^ Wilson expect to stay in Prince George until Easter before moving to the Cariboo.
MORE BABIES BORN HERE LAST YEAR
Prince George beat its 1937 .birth record by ten babies, the government department of statistics revealed, this week. The total for 1938 was 119, against 109 the previous year.
Deaths were fewer last year, with a total of 49 compared to 56 in 1937. The big increase over the previous year was recorded in the marriage section where an increase of 24 was recorded. Sixty-six couples took the plunge last year, while 42 were wed in 1937.
Lumber Shipments
For 1938 Topped
Previous Year
United States is Still District's
Biggest Market�More Cars
Go to Prairies
Lumber shipments in the Fort George fores; district in 1938 were 275 cars more than the previous year, according to figures released by the district forester's office here. The figures show a 19 per cent increase in carloadings over 1937. Total of 1407 cars of lumber were shipped from the district to either the prairies, the United States or eastern Canada in 1937, compared wlh 1682 cars last year.
Prairie shipments reflect the healthy Increase In the wheat crop, pegged at 80 cents a bushel by the Canadian government this year. An increase of 80 per cent over the previous year was recorded in prairie shipments while eastern Canada shipments dropped 22 per cent.
Although prairie carloadings showed an increase over 1937, the district's biggest customer was still the United States. Of the. total lumber shipment, 50 per cent went to the States, 33 per cent to: the prairies, and. 14 per cent to eastern Canada: '
LOG SCALE A comparison of the log- scale totals for 1937 and 1938 shows an increase in 1938 in hewn ties, poles and pilings, mining Umbel's and corded products, but sawlogs were below the 1937 totals. The figures are as follows, percentage increase or decrease indicated by plus or minus:
1937 Sawlogs (fbm) ..48,184,913
Hewn ties ........ 209,034
Poles & piling .. 402,391 Mining: timbers 334.995 Corded products 10,516
1938
minus 6% plus 71% plus 35% plus 20% plus 18%
'Prince George Has Best^Airport Any City in Province'
Canadian Airways' Manager
W. E. Gilbert, Speaks Well
of City Field
Prince George has the best and safest airport of any centre in BrLish Columbia, and the future of this city as an important link In any con.inent wide airways chain is definitely assured.
This is the opinion of Walter E. �Gilbert, B. C. manager of Canadian Airways, the northern interior's fasc-developing freight and passenger company. Mr. Gilbert, who brought a new six-place Bellanca aircraft Into Prince George for use on the noi\h run out of Fort St. James, drew a comparison between this airport and the facilities in the city of Seattle. In his opinion, Prince 'George's service to airmen compares favorably with that given at the Washington metropolis.
"Prince George has the best runway in B. C. I think it is better than Vancouver's even though they have a concrete surface there," he declared.
The lengthy sweep of the field, nearly a mile long, drew favorable comment from the transport manager. He said that planes would have little difflcuty landing on either skis or wheels during the winter, so safe did he consider the field to be.
Mr. Gilbert, an airways optimist, could see the time when Prince George would be a vital airport centre on a direct run from the United States to Alaska. This city's central position and freedom from fog assures it a significant place in the aeronautic scheme of things in the future.
Commenting on the development of air services in the north in the past year, Mr. Gilbert mentioned the increasing use the public is making of aeroplanes for freight and transportation. His company has recorded double the business over last year, and he hopes to see greater development in 1939. This has been the first year in the life of Canadian Airways that summer staffs of men have been kept oijL the payroll'.throughput the winter. At Fort St. James two and probably three men will be added to the staff this year, he said. He pave credit to Russ Baker, agent at Fort St. James, for much of the business inn-pase rb�t, had taken place in the north in 1938.
Gordon Ballantine, pilot on Canadian Airways fisheries patrol on fhe coast, accompanied Mr. Gilbert. Following an inspection tour of the territory, he will return1 by car or train to his home in Vancouver.
KARL ANDERSON
HEADS OLD TIMERS
Karl Anderson was elected president of the Old Timers' Association at the annual meeting In the Northern Hardware building Sunday afternoon, George Henry, retiring president, presided.
Harl Anderson is one of the real pioneers of this city. Last year he celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his entry into business in Prince George. As new president of the old timers, he will be one of those In charge of arrangements for the big annual banquet and dance on Wednesday, February 8.
Other officers elected for 1939 are: W. N. "Rusty" Campbell, first vice-president; Walter H. Crocker, second vice-president, and Fred D. Taylor, secretary.
City To Have
Snow Plow
Prince George city council has decided to inves igEite the possibility of purchasing a snowplow for us� on city streets. Traffic in the city has been hindered at times for.lack of such a machine, and it is thought it could be bought next year.
It is intended to attach the plow to a dual wheeled dump truck when operating. With a good, powerful truck, all the main streets could be cleared in one day. it Is thought. The plow and truck will cost about $4,000, in the opinion of Mayor Patterson.
V. S. SILVER PRICE
President Roosevelt has said there will be no cha-nge for the next six months in the United States price of silver which carries a big bonus over world prices.
Better Radio Service
Promised For Interior
A vigourous editorial campaign in The Prince George Citizen advocatihg improved radio service for the central interior has met with a favourable response from Ottawa.
B. C.'s interior is expected to be given new radio facilities shortly, either with the establishment of a series of srrvall stations
in the Prince George, Lillooet and Cariboo areas, or the construction of a powerful new broad-^c-casting station in Vancouver which would be strong enough to carry its programs throughout the province.
This announcement came from Ottawa following a strong- editorial and news s.ories in this newspaper. Condemning the attitude of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation in basing Its service on the amount of revenue collected from licenses In given areas, the Citizen demanded better service and a new deal for central B.C. radio listeners.
Denunciation of C.B.C. policy In'the matter of radio reception was the culmination of a long-range program of protest by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade radio
committees. John W-alker, chairman of a joint committee, worked strongly gathering data on radio service, ana o hers, including A. B. Moffat, Dr. H. J. Hocking and W. J. Pitman-have repeatedly deplored the lack of adequate radio service In the central interior. These citizens have felt that better service to radio listeners should be forthcoming before the transport department could justifiably criticize Prince George for laxity in the purchase of radio licenses.
Now the whole problem of radio recep'ion in this area is under study by experts in the federal capital, and definite action is expected to be taken shortly.